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Saw this on GMA this morning. Reggie Love is Barack Obama's Right Hand Man.
~LT
Reggie Love Is Barack Obama's Gatekeeper, Friend
Love Went From Duke Athletics to Obama's Personal Assistant
By NICK WATT and LEE FERRAN
Aug. 19, 2008
Every president, and every presidential candidate, has one -- a "body man," or personal assistant.
Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, hands over a statue offered by a supporter to his assistant Reggie Love during a town hall meeting with veterans at the American GI Forum in San Antonio, Texas, on March 3, 2008.
And Barack Obama? Well, he has Reggie Love, a former Duke University varsity basketball and football player. Though the two have become very close since Love took on the role of body man in January, to Love, defining exactly what he does can be difficult.
"It definitely makes for interesting conversations when you meet someone and they're like, 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'Well, I travel around with this guy all day. He's running for president,'" Love told "Good Morning America."
It is perhaps easier to define Love's job by what he carries with him when he travels with the Democratic presidential hopeful. In his bag is an array of small, everyday items, such as a toothbrush, mouthwash, cough drops, aspirin and wet naps.
Full story at: abcnews.go.com/GMA
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